Adnan sets the strategy and leads overall operations across all functions globally for MarketsandMarkets. His main aim is to deliver breakthrough growth for our customers by helping them unlock the full value of MarketsandMarkets’ industry leading platform, with unique insights into the fastest growing 30,000+ emerging technologies and markets. He will lead high performance teams across the globe to drive hyperscale growth through excellence in Product, Research, Go-to-Market, and Corporate functions.

Adnan has been a growth-focused CEO with over 25 years of experience leading teams and building disruptive data and technology businesses within Fortune 500 companies, as well as start-ups. He has led global businesses and teams in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and brings with him a strong mix of strategy and operational execution. Most recently, Adnan was CEO at Blue Top Capital, a real estate crowdfunding platform that he co-founded. Prior to Blue Top Capital, he was CEO at Marketwired, a global newswire business, where he led its transformation from a traditional newswire business to a global social communications company, which resulted in a successful merger with Nasdaq.

Krishnan holds the overall responsibility to drive operational excellence at MarketsandMarkets. He plays a vital role in enhancing and expanding the overall customer lifecycle, driving the sales and marketing ecosystem, and delivering a high-impact customer success journey for our revenue impact story.

Krishnan is a multi-disciplinary professional with over 25 years of experience straddling consumer goods (B2C) and technology (B2B) industries in domestic (India) and global markets. He is known for creative breakthroughs in the functions he has led across organizations. Krishnan’s last assignment was with SAP India, where he donned the dual hats of Head of Marketing and Chief Customer Officer. He has also worked with HCL and ITC, where he was responsible for leading strategic marketing initiatives. Krishnan also enjoys the privilege of being inducted into Paul Writer’s CMO Hall of Fame, a platform celebrating senior marketers developing and enhancing India’s marketing ecosystem. Krishnan is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta and has an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

Anoop Garg, Co-Founder of MarketsandMarkets, has more than 17 years of experience working under guidance of Sandeep Sugla. He has successfully built the team and revenues for the partner relationship division along with the Conference division from scratch as a revenue and marketing division for MarketsandMarkets. He is overlooking IT support, office administration, and the finance department.

Shelly has over 25 years of experience in managing global businesses in big data analytics, decision sciences, and BPO industries. He was one of the early employees of Daksh and subsequently enabled its acquisition by IBM. After the merger, he served several global leadership roles with IBM. He left IBM at a Senior Partner level to join Mu Sigma as the global head of sales & client services and a member of Mu Sigma Japan and Germany Board. Shelly also played Interim CEO role at Mu Sigma. He is a member of the Institute of Cost Accounts in India, and has participated in Harvard executive programs focused on long term negotiations.

Sulakshana leads Global Human Resources function as a strategic partner to CXOs to achieve MarketsandMarkets’s hypergrowth. She is instrumental in defining the Employee Value Proposition, Talent Architecture, building Employee Experience in hybrid workplaces and reimaging the FutureofWork. She is passionate about inspiring employees to imbibe the Growth Mind-set.

Prior to MarketsandMarkets, Sulakshana was the Executive Vice President and Business Leader at WNS Global Services for the Utilities, Retail & Consumer Products, Manufacturing and Diversified Businesses. As one of the early adopters in the industry to pivot from the traditional outsourcing business model to complex transformational programs for clients to excel and remain industry leaders, Sulakshana was instrumental in transforming WNS from being a largely captive operations for British Airways to one of the largest global business process outsourcing firms. From founding the F&A practice, which was key in helping WNS establish itself as a leading player in the space, to incubating 5 large verticals, which eventually contributed to 80% of businesses revenues.

Sulakshana nurtured and managed strategic relationships with large established and emerging companies and set up global delivery centres across geographies. To enhance People and Capability Development, she led partnerships with industry and education bodies viz CIMA and Top Management Institutes.

Prior to joining WNS, Sulakshana was a Consultant with PWC. Sulakshana is a Cost and Management Account from ICMAI and an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.

Harwinder leads Global Research & Consulting division of MarketsandMarkets. He is closely involved in developing overall corporate strategy, product development, planning organizational structure and M&A activities for MarketsandMarkets. Harwinder leads MarketsandMarkets vision to be leader in B2B Information Services and to create a legacy of being one of the most respected brands in Business Research.

Over the course of last 6 years, Harwinder was instrumental in growing "research and consulting" team, which constitutes biggest chunk of 1000+ employees of MarketsandMarkets. With more than 8 industry verticals where MarketsandMarkets provides information services, Harwinder is closely involved in developing disruptive offerings and solutions for its clients which constitute Fortune 5000 companies of B2B world.

Prior to joining MarketsandMarkets, from 2000 till 2010, Harwinder worked in different organizations within the sphere of Healthcare Industry. Harwinder also had entrepreneurial stint in his family owned business "SKF & Associates" for few years. He worked in Mckinsey & Co as healthcare research professional and in marketing and sales functions for Venus Remedies and Eli Lilly.

He was a research associate in 2005 in W.H.O sponsored project titled "Impact of TRIPS on generic drug prices in India" under Dr Parikshit Bansal (Head - Intellectual Property and Technology Cell - NIPER). This report was submitted to Government of India and was used as reference document for framing policy and guidelines on drug prices in India.

Harwinder holds bachelor's degree in pharmaceuticals and master's in business administration.

Rajat manages the India based syndicated research team of MarketsandMarkets. He brings over 10 years of experience in establishing, managing, and growing the research & analysis teams. An astute strategic planner and operations leader, he has been recognized by the top leadership for valuable contribution in engaging large accounts on many occasions throughout his career.

Prior to joining MarketsandMarkets, Rajat worked with GlobalData Research Center for nearly 8 years. He led a team of 100+ analysts and was instrumental in developing & successfully commercializing their oil & gas subscription product. He worked with all major companies across the oil & gas value chain including oil & gas supermajors, national oil companies, independents, oil & gas service companies and professional services companies. Rajat has also worked with the European Energy team of Frost & Sullivan, specializing in the distributed generation technologies such as renewables, fuels cells and power rentals.

Rajat holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from XIM Bhubaneswar with a specialization in Finance & Strategy.

As Chief Research Officer, Aashish leads MarketsandMarkets’ Analyst teams across verticals to deliver revenue impact to our clients. He leads our syndicate teams that publish fresh insights on niche, high-growth markets, our Advisory teams that deliver new revenue-growth ideas and insights as part of our Annual Engagement Model, and our custom research work clients. He closely works with our Customer Success teams on Engagement Delivery to ensure multiple client stakeholders benefit from new revenue growth opportunities.

Aashish has over 20 years of experience advising CXOs and senior executives across sales, marketing, strategy, and M&A on revenue-growth problems. His core expertise is in advising clients find new revenue streams from high-growth, niche markets that offer a step change potential in their future revenues. He has advised clients on gaining share in existing markets by strengthening their “right to win” v/s competitors; helped clients diversify into new product segments, regions, technologies, applications, and use cases; and worked with product/innovation leaders on commercializing their new technologies/product ideas. His clients include global leaders in healthcare and chemicals and materials, and some of the largest and most respected technology companies across the US and UK, Central Europe, China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia.

Prior to MarketsandMarkets, Aashish was a Partner with PwC Strategy& (legacy Booz & Co), India. Before that, he co-led the Asia Pacific practice for Strategic Decisions Group, a California-based boutique strategy consulting firm. Aashish is an MBA from IIM Calcutta and holds a BTech degree from IIT Delhi.

With 22 years of experience managing profit and loss, client relationships and nurturing and growing businesses, Khera is expert in various customer and market-facing roles and managing business operations and cross-cultural teams across global locations, among other skills. He previously worked in various leadership positions, including as geography head at Mu Sigma Inc., a big data analytics and decision sciences company; and assistant vice president of corporate development and director of program management at GlobalLogic, a digital product engineering services company.

Wadhwani has more than 18 years of experience managing teams of designers, developers and researchers and crafting engaging user experiences and integrated product experiences across touch points, devices and platforms. He has received numerous industry awards for his work and has been instrumental in successful product launches. Wadhwani previously worked as chief manager of product design and marketing at Saregama India Ltd., India’s oldest music label; and executive creative director at Network18 Digital, a media and entertainment company, among other positions.

Kavitha is heading the Human Resource department of MarketsandMarkets. She has more than 10+ years of experience. Kavitha has joined MnM team in 2012, since then she has strategically worked towards the achievement of organizational goals.

She has involved in the organizational development, compensation design, talent acquisition and management, training and development, and employee engagement. Kavitha has successfully managed organizational change both in terms of the number of resources and the quality of resources.

Pavan Palety, as the Geography Head - Europe, looks after sales, client services, partnerships and shared services for MarketsandMarkets Europe. Based out of Munich, his primary focus areas are to manage and grow the company’s revenue and market share in Europe, work closely with clients to understand and uncover latent demand in revenue forecast and future mix and ensuring the delivery of sustainable and actionable insights to them. He is also responsible for building a strong and competent Europe team. He has over 12 years of experience in managing global businesses in big data analytics, decision sciences, and IT industries.